Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Marcus
Prepared for your Senior UX Designer Discovery
What stands out
Marcus talks about ownership in a way that keeps narrowing rather than broadening — consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
We arrived at the same place from your Understanding, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Marcus
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Described in specifics rather than principles — consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Leadership
Describes their best managers as coaches rather than reviewers — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Mission
Marcus keeps returning to this without being asked: repeatedly prioritises meaningful travel impact.
Revisited deliberately, and Marcus did not soften it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Marcus. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Marcus's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £92,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Marcus is currently an UX Researcher, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly travel, energy and government.
Marcus has moved from Content Designer to UX Researcher over 13 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.